Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

He who best knows the world will love it least.